Nick Hornby is the author of six novels, the most recent of which is Juliet, Naked, and a memoir, Fever Pitch. He is also the author of Songbook, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award for music criticism, and editor of the short-story collection Speaking with the Angel. His screenplay for An Education was nominated for an Academy Award. He lives in North London. His three previous collections of writing from the Believer magazine are The Polysyllabic Spree, Housekeeping vs. the Dirt, and Shakespeare Wrote for Money.